Congratulations to Faculty of Asian Studies students who graduated on Thursday 11 December, in ceremonies in held at Llewellyn Hall for graduates of the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.
Guest speakers at the ceremonies were Mr Graeme Dobell, Mr Malcolm Crompton and Mr Malcolm Lamb. Mr Dobell has had a long and distinguished career [...]
ANU academics, including Professor Tony Milner, Basham Professor of History in the Faculty of Asian Studies, have been key players in the First ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Dialogue, held in Kuala Lumpur on 5-6 December. The host organization was ASEAN-ISIS, the influential Track II organization that has played a critical role in regional diplomacy. ANU participants were [...]
Four members of the Faculty of Asian Studies, Dr Thai Duy Bao, Dr Richard Barz, Dr McComas Taylor and Dr Carol Hayes, attended the 3rd CLaSIC International Conference from 4-7 December in Singapore, at the National University of Singapore, presenting papers within the joint NUS-ANU Asian Languages Symposium. The conference theme was “Media in foreign [...]
Graduate students from the Faculty gathered together for a Christmas lunch on Monday the 8th of December.
The event was held in the Fellows Room at University House, and provided a great opportunity for students to catch up with friends and find out about each other’s research.
Students enjoyed a wonderful meal and some Christmas pudding.
A great [...]
On Friday 5 December upwards of a hundred colleagues, friends, and admirers of Dr Ian Proudfoot gathered at the Asia Bookroom in Canberra to launch Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World in his honour.
How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the [...]
Ms Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi, who teaches the Faculty of Asian Studies course in Burmese, is one of 20 Australians to receive a national “Unsung Heroes” award initiated by ABC TV.
The conferral of the Award coincided with the inauguration of the new National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on December 4th.
Mar’s portrait appears in the [...]
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